O movimento homossexual no Brasil e suas políticas identitárias: uma abordagem histórico-social

Abstract

This thesis presents a study regarding the homosexual movement in Brazil and issues relating to the "paradigm of the closet", which became central at various times and to various groups related to the identity constructions of the movement. Based on theoretical and methodological perspectives of Cultural Studies, the genealogical analysis and queer studies, we sought to revisit the historical process of formation and political organization of the movement from the 1960s, with the emergence of social networks, to the Sexual Diversity Parade in contemporary times, in order to understand the sociocultural, political and ideological movement that coalesced in the discourses and practices around the calls for homosexuals to "come out of the closet”, publicly assuming a "gay identity". Such influences constitute themselves as political mechanisms for both the social recognition of homosexuality and for the introduction of a "libertarian logic" in the field of subjectivity. The analysis of these strategies has shown that the process of enunciation of homosexuality produces visibility and recognition, creating democratizing consensus, as well as legal and socio-political advancement. The claim of recognition, however, that relies on a clearly formulated identity, can interfere with desexualized conduct and of affective experiences between persons of the same sex, becoming mechanisms of regulation and introducing within the movement itself essential dialogue and practices and identity frameworks.